Category: Office 365

Provision a site with a pre-set permissions is always a trouble for us. I found a great article here https://medium.com/provisionpoint/sharepoint-site-provisioning-in-office-365-27eaa2897776 about using pnp site template to complete this job in a easy way. read count : 12

I am trying to move all file from google drive to one drive business, so i think of flow. But I found if my folder name starts with a number, in microsoft flow i am unable to select it, it is not exist in the folder selection dialog. Even if i type the folder name… Read more

If i pass an integer to the function’s parameter “from”, it will become integer and say it doesn’t has “includes” function, since it is belong to class string. This code is tested in SharePoint online with reactjs and typescript. Below is my tsconfig.json read count : 39

Unexplainable : Typescript compiler has bug, if i add anything above {this.toDoList}, a html tag or just a string, the variable become nothing, nothing is shown on the screen. I am not sure it is reactjs bug or typescript bug, or may be chrome bug. I am using latest spfx 1.7.0 with SharePoint Online for… Read more

When you login to central admin and found out your “new web application” button is disabled. Just run SharePoint configuration Wizard, logout and login admin your windows. Everything will be fine. !!! If still failed, try to login to windows via non-administrator account. Then start central admin by “run as administrator” read count : 9

1. you have to run sharepoint shell using administrator 2. when credential dialog popup, you have to input the user name as machine_name\administrator 3. when hitting error, you must close the shell and restart it, otherwise whatever you do, last error message still happen Tips: 1. if you hit “Requested registry access is not allowed”,… Read more

I am building a small workflow using Microsoft flow to auto move the Nintex status email from my inbox to a SharePoint list. I found out some advantages of Flows than Nintex workflows. First it support a debug button to either : replay the last trigger or halt the workflow and want for you trigger.… Read more

In file .yo-rc.json, the value of “environment” is either “spo” or “onprem”, it identify your project is on-premises or sharepoint online. If you want to create extension, you have to use “spo” { “@microsoft/generator-sharepoint”: { “version”: “1.4.1”, “libraryName”: “quantr-express”, “libraryId”: “1a6a217f-6fb8-44b4-981f-35d0ebe7025b”, “environment”: “onprem” } } read count : 10

why one-column in SharePoint online is not full width? why one-column in SharePoint online has a fixed max-width and not adjustable? I don’t understand why Microsoft put such a hardcode setting read count : 10

When i redeploy my SharePonit spfx extension, the new site column name never refresh. I tried to delete the app and redeploy the app. Or even change the version number in package-solution.json. It is no hope. The steps i pack the sppkg file are: This issue is reported to github https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-fx-webparts/issues/472 read count : 14

Microsoft doc teach us to hard code the cdn path with tenant name, first, it is wrong, if we want to deploy our webpart to office365 cdn, just leave it as “cdnBasePath”: “” , see the below image. Second, even we follow the doc to hardcode the cdn path, it doesn’t work !!! See my… Read more

I am very good at developing SharePoint modern webpart now, below is my learning curve for you to reference. I know nodejs 2 years ago but i didn’t take any commerical project for that, so my nodejs skill is not very hands-on. I spent two days to review everything i need to start nodejs programming.… Read more

When you are creating modern webpart, you need to upgrade your node modules to v1.4 manually by “npm updated” and “npm install –save @microsoft/sp-build-web@latest”, icon will not distort in v1.4 sharepoint sdk now. read count : 9

My first impression is, powerapps doesn’t support safari and i am in mac. I found a few bugs. The form designer is fast but if compare the functionalities to Nintex or AgilePoint, it still lacks of advance features, such as custom javascript, custom layout. read count : 14

In SharePoint with NodeJs development, Microsoft was suggesting us to use Node 6.9.x, now microsoft website is updated and telling us to use Node8.9.x, I tried which failed. Lots of people on technet are saying they can’t compile their SharePoint project too. Microsoft need a better open source QC team. read count : 16